Deck Devastation Virus

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StRiKe_NiNjA

Dimension Shift Ninja
Hey all, it's been awhile... Summers been fun :)

Made of fool of myself one tourney... T.T

Deck Devastation Virus "destroys" cards while in the hand, I ended up destroying Night Assailant and I said it's effect wouldn't activate, you know I gave the excuse and said "discard doesn't equal destroy" till I seen that 1 ruling.

If "Night Assailant" in your hand is destroyed by the effect of "Deck Devastation Virus", its effect will activate.

Judge said, "True, but who says destroy doesn't equal discard" while in the hand?" I got baffled for a little bit.

Anyone can tell me why?
 
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Night Assailant is one of the fewer effects that require the "generic" action of being sent from the hand to the graveyard. The first ruling for this outlines it a little better

"Night Assailant" doesn't have to be sent to the Graveyard by an effect, or by an effect controlled by your opponent; it just has to be sent to the Graveyard. "Night Assailant"'s effect activates when sent to the Graveyard as a cost for "Magic Jammer" or "Tribe-Infecting Virus"; "Night Assailant"'s effect activates after the current chain resolves.

The comment "who says destroy doesn't equal discard" is correct. Discardng and Destroying both include the action of sending the card to the graveyard, but Destroying provides gives the card in question the "status" of being destroyed for effects/triggers that require it. Night Assailant (like Emissary of the Afterlife and Sangan) don't require the added status, they merely need to fulfill the requirement of going from Point A to B, in which case the act of "Destroying" fulfills this.

Does this help at all, or have I just technobabbled into a corner again?
 
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Don't sweat it, you make perfect sense. :)

I didn't argue because this was the Head Judge afterall, and a friend of mine in fair gameplay.

Thanks. It's just that when I think about it, I couldv'e clarified it myself if my opponent wasn't such a little brat kid, LoL, and actually let me read the card effect, but what can I do?

Oh well, it's not like I didn't walk away as the tournament winner anyway ;)
 
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In general, "Sent" is a bit of an all-purpose term. In that case it doesn't matter if it's destroyed, discarded, tributed, whatever. As long as it goes from point a to point b (as described on the card), the effect will activate.
 
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I guess I should be more clear in that I'm not saying that Night Assailent's effect doesn't or shouldn't activate.

I just mean to say that Discard doesn't equal Destroy, ever. And the judge in question may not have meant (or shouldn' have) to insinuate that.

Night Assailant's effect, obviously, doesn't care one way or the other how it gets to the Graveyard as long it goes there from the hand. I just don't want this incident to be misinterpreted as a case of discarding equaling destroying, when it really isn't.
 
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thats correct discard doesnt mean destroy, Look at cards like Vampire Lord, through the stament the head judge gave Ninja over there he would say that V Lord would be specialed Summon through Don Zaloogs effect if it were managable to discard it from the opponents hand.

Discard doesnt mean Destroyed. all it means is Send to graveyard. Thats all.

unless it specifically says destroy then it will be destroyed and sent. itll gain the added bonus of being destroyed, but if it says send or discard or tribute (ritual monsters) then it by no means gets the attribute of Destroyed.
 
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